Mauro Bennici

My 2 cents, depending on excercise, mood and group:

Earned it – The Weeknd
Take it back – Ed Sheeran
Still young – The Cat Empire
Brighter than gold – The Cat Empire
Happiness – Jonathan Jeremiah
Street spirit – Radiohead
Try and make sense – MOAT
The Walker – Fitz and the Tantrums
Can’t hold us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Move on up – Curtis…[Read more]

Matevz, your welcome.

For other folks who might read this post the link is http://www.gargoylesoftware.com/lsp/facilitators and also contains a link to a PDF you can print to resort the Explorer kits.

I have found recently that folks who aren’t familiar with what a moose is nor LEGO have a time putting it together. You substitute to the Windows…[Read more]

I have a public Spotify playlist if you’re interested. https://open.spotify.com/user/123895693/playlist/5Gs4talVveRL1dZWWK1Fk1

It’s all instrumental, high energy, good beats. Have a listen. It may not be right for everyone but i like it.

Hi Guy, ignore my question. I have found the Moose on-line.
Thanks again for the ideas!
Matevz

Hi, thanks for your advices. I have just one more question for Guy:
What is Mike Bowler’s Moose? We didn’t use it during our training sessions. Can it be made by bricks from Teaser bags? Would you be so kind to share the instructions?
Is there any model with building instrucions that can be build from Teaser bags (for the Metaphors c…[Read more]

thanks for the suggestions

Thanks guys! great to talk about the aspect of music, cause it does create an atmosphere. I usualy go for old style jazz, but will check out your suggestions as well.

Hi Sophie,

Here are some of the songs I use:

Pharrell Williams – Happy (always a great starter)
Art of Noise – Dreaming in Color, Il Pleure
Fourplay – Play and Pleasure, Bali Run
Rhye – Open
Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire
Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
Moby – My Beautiful Blue Sky, Stream
Macklemore – Downtown

It always depends on the build exercise…[Read more]

Hi Sophie,
For the construction skill building I use “Trashin’ the Camp” by Phil Collins/’N Sync from the Tarzan soundtrack. It’s fun, energetic and short
For the individual metaphor build, I use Al Di Meola’s version of “Theme from the Mothership”. It’s reasonably fast-paced, while still remaining quite controlled and serene.
For a shortish…[Read more]

Hi Sofie,
A couple of suggestions:
1) Limit the number of bricks for the tower building. give them the bottom and the top and tell them to choose only ten more. This will focus the building and might help to focus the stories too.
2) Give specific instructions (for example “tells us what you have built and what it says about you”) and stick to…[Read more]

Hi Sofie,
I always ask the participants what them would like to hear.
At some point in time, them are the “owners” of the activity…. :)
Have fun,
Rodrigo

Hi!
I would recommend to give as much as 2 minutes per participant during warm up.
In my perception, the power of the methodology arises on the exercices after the warm up, not during it…..
Have fun,
Rodrigo

Hi Hugues,
I just found your note, im basically on the same subject.
What about some ideas i found netsurfing the web:
1) building a duck with 7 pieces
2) removing 3-4 pieces and explaining why it is still a duck
3) build a tower
4) build your ideal neighbor with the mini figure and 5 additional pieces
5) build the same day, 3 hours earlier
Have…[Read more]

5 minute intro.
A group of us did something similar. We followed a quick version of normal skill building:
Tower: Intro yourself and say one thing about your tower in 30 secs. Reflection is everybody in the room hold up towers and see how with identical instructions the outcomes are different.
Moose: Build Mike Bowler’s Moose. We have instructions…[Read more]

Hi Matevz,

Great opportunity you have!

If i were in your shoes, i would take the advantage of getting people to understand the power of a metaphor and the 3d perspective, all at once.

So, as an introduction exercises (similar as in a warm up), i would have them create a version of themselves with the mini-figure and a maximum of 5 additional…[Read more]

Lego has been around for many years, and I believed it holds a lot of trademarking and copyright ownership. Trademark so to speak includes the use of slogan, taglines, descriptions, special characters, designs and layout along with its brand name and logo. If in any case you copy one of each detailed trademarks, even the closes design or alike so…[Read more]